Here are the notes from our May 15th meeting. Please feel free to amend.
Group A
Purpose:
Network recourses
Offer guidance to those who want to hope but don’t know how
Inspire/motivate emerging leaders
Build awareness of multiple realities of
Business à schools
Variability among schools
Rich/poor
Urban/non-urban
Ethnicity
Local power
Resources
Explore avenues to expand and/or expand resources
Touch the community
Access applicable business/management techniques
Aiding the transition from the classroom to the administrative
Outcomes:
Development of skills for success
Team building
Budgets
Decision making model
L/T planning
Strategic planning
Stress management
Time management
Applying/transferring knowledge to teacher
Mentoring
Difficult conversations
Interpersonal skills
Public speaking
PR/marketing
Entrepreneurial
Ethics in the classroom
Goal:
Provide legal access
Provide outreach
Get principal buy-in
Group B
Goal:
§ To develop a curriculum for assistant principals to learn skills through experiences and sharing of best practices.
o Must be real time and transferable.
o Give them time to apply what was learned.
§ To form a continuous model for leadership development
§ School improvement through community involvement and leadership development.
o Develops techniques to access to community
o Improve the educational outcomes (student achievement) through leadership
o Give tools to go beyond managerial and procedural issues.
§ Equip principals of tomorrow with these skills in order to be successful
Purpose:
To facilitate learning through the sharing of best practices, by engaging the community.
Internal sharing: schools
External sharing: businesses and community
Outcomes:
Improve student achievement
Create an environment of innovation
Give tools to go beyond …..?
Become pro-active rather than reactive
To become successful instructional leaders by becoming an agent of change
Be equipped with the tools and skills
Utilize tools and skills
To better equip principals w/the tools and skills to become proactive instructional leaders (final outcome)
Level One
Managerial
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Level Two
Leadership
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Level Two
Instruction
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Level Three
Strategies
Innovation
Change Theory
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Level Four Innovation
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Need to have some sort of incentive for principals to buy-in the program so they will allow assistants to participate and apply.
Components of the program
Need based
Innovation
Strategic planning
Sharing best practices
Professional development
Running the school as a business
How to deal with bad employees
How to deal with unions
Communication
Handling the media
Team building
Negotiation skills
Outcomes
Whole Group Discussion
Reso
Resource
Skill
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Stress Management
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Leadership B’ham
Strategic Planning
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Human Resources
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Leadership B’ham
Public Relations
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Leadership B’ham
Marketing
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LB
Entrepreneurial skills
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LB
Ethics
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Current Trends
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Case Studies
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Dealing with Difficult situations
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LB
Team Building
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LB
Negotiations
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Change Master
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Strategic Vision
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LB
Finances
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LB
Grant Writing/Fund Raising
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Volunteer Management
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LB
Managing Upstream
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LB
Conflict Resolution
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Culture Builder
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Networking
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Needed by June 1st:
§ Skeleton Structure
o Objectives
o Program elements
o Goals/purpose
§ Application process
§ Who’s managing
§ Funding/budget
§ Resource management
§ Establish an endowment for funding
Group A
Purpose:
Outcomes:
Goal:
Group B
Goal:
§ To develop a curriculum for assistant principals to learn skills through experiences and sharing of best practices.
o Must be real time and transferable.
o Give them time to apply what was learned.
§ To form a continuous model for leadership development
§ School improvement through community involvement and leadership development.
o Develops techniques to access to community
o Improve the educational outcomes (student achievement) through leadership
o Give tools to go beyond managerial and procedural issues.
§ Equip principals of tomorrow with these skills in order to be successful
Purpose:
Outcomes:
Managerial
Leadership
Instruction
Innovation
Need to have some sort of incentive for principals to buy-in the program so they will allow assistants to participate and apply.
Components of the program
Whole Group Discussion
Needed by June 1st:
§ Skeleton Structure
o Objectives
o Program elements
o Goals/purpose
§ Application process
§ Who’s managing
§ Funding/budget
§ Resource management
§ Establish an endowment for funding